Google’s New Location-Aware Search is Rolling Out and Awesome

Ever been in front of a restaurant and wondered when it opened, but didn’t want to bother with pulling out your phone, searching for its name in an app, then scrolling through information to find out its business ours? Or maybe you were standing in a park, looking at a monument and wondering just how tall that statue was? What about that lake in front of you, how deep is it? Google can answer questions like these for you, even if you don’t know the name of the restaurant, park, monument, or lake. With their recently launched (and unannounced) location-aware search, you can ask Google things about items nearby and based on your location, will give you answers.

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land was at a conference in Paris yesterday where Google was showing off the new location-aware goodness and captured some of the examples in videos that were posted to Twitter.

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I see it now! It all makes sense. Android(a robot) OS becoming self aware is a foreshadow of GoogleNet(Skynet) becoming self aware in the future /s.

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Adblock Plus (ABP)

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Tyler Durden

Oh the horror of .00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 seconds of scrolling

JRUIV

that .00000000000000000000000001 seconds adds up

michael arazan

The day ads start paying us to read and watch advertisements, then I’ll stop blocking, freezing, muting, and FF through them

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People need to stop this. It’s on every other post and it’s frankly annoying. The ads on this site are so much better than most. Either accept the way it is and show your support to this site or go elsewhere.

tlingitsoldier

I am all for supporting these websites, but they need to consider the fact that this makes for a poor user experience. Droid Life ads are alright, considering they aren’t scrolling ads, but the ads take up more space than most of the articles, and I wouldn’t say they’re better than most.

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Bop it_Twis it_Pull it

No joke bruh, I’m tired uh that

Bradon

That’s neat and all but I feel like a jack ass constantly saying “OK Google” out loud. Can we finally get a feature to customize it. Even if it’s restricted to minimum of four syllables, whatever, anything to change it. Motorola has had this working for years. Get with it Google.

Droid Ronin

I asked “How deep is this lake?” and it gives me info on Crater Lake, which is in Oregon.
I’m in California.

Cory S

it’s a Google feature. It’ll work once, but never reliably enough to use.

Nick

What lake are you near?

MKader17

All the lakes in California are dried up, this making them not a lake; so it probably picked the closest one.

Killa

Wonder how it’ll work in Minnesota….the state of 10,000 lakes? 😛

Maxim∑

Does it now poll for location every time you use search or just on commands requiring it?

Tyler Durden

haha and Ron just made an article about privacy

Suicide_Note

I don’t understand what this has to do with the article.

Big EZ

This needs your location, which some consider private information.

OF

Your location isn’t private anyway. I know where you are at all times..

Suicide_Note

So has every mapping app since GPS started appearing in devices. This isn’t new, and its no invasion of privacy.

Big EZ

Some people don’t use maps just because of that reason. Others, like myself, only turn on GPS when I’m actively using maps. It’s nothing new, but it is a privacy concern.